Editor's note: This article contains mentions of suicide as well as spoilers for the graphic novel and musical Fun Home.
Of all the brilliant lines from Fun Home, the stage musical based on the autobiographical graphic novel by Alison Bechdel, OC ’81, one in particular might resonate with Oberlin students. “It’s not the world, anyways,” proclaims a character modeled after a college-aged Bechdel. “It’s Oberlin College.”
Bechdel, one of Oberlin’s most famous alumni, is lauded as a cartoonist,...